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Ukraine reports 4 dead and 21 injured in Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said four people were killed and 21 injured in overnight attacks. Russia’s Defense Ministry said 344 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted over Russian territory and the Black Sea.
The parties to the Russia-Ukraine war issued statements on attacks carried out overnight. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said four people were killed and 21 injured in attacks across the country, while calling for increased international pressure on Moscow and an end to the war.
Russia says 344 Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted
Russia’s Defense Ministry said 344 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed over Russian territory and the Black Sea.
The ministry said unmanned aerial vehicle attacks had targeted logistics centers, ports, vessels serving Ukrainian forces and transport infrastructure in Ukraine.
Russia’s Defense Ministry also claimed that the Kopilov logistics park in the Kyiv region, a pontoon crossing over the Dniester River in the Odesa region and a bulk carrier at the Port of Chornomorsk had been struck. The ministry said two bulk carriers at sea were also targeted on the grounds that they were carrying supplies to Ukrainian forces.
Ukraine says 176 aerial vehicles were launched
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched two missiles and 174 unmanned aerial vehicles overnight, adding that 141 of them were neutralized. The main targets of the attacks were identified as the Odesa and Kyiv regions.
Nine-story building hit in Sumy
According to Ukrainian authorities, a Russian guided bomb struck a nine-story residential building in the Sumy region. Two people were killed and eight injured, including two children; four people were rescued from the rubble.
Authorities also said an elderly couple was killed when a private home collapsed in the city of Balakliia in the Kharkiv region.
Casualties and damage in Odesa and eastern cities
Ten people were injured when an 11-story administrative building was struck in Odesa. Two emergency responders were among the injured.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry claimed that the area came under another attack while emergency crews were working at the scene.
Three people were injured in an airstrike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk. A residential building caught fire in Kramatorsk district, where rescue teams pulled two people from the flames.
A hospital in Pavlohrad and civilian infrastructure in the Kyiv region were also reported to have been targeted.
As the war continues, the parties’ statements about attacks and damage are difficult to independently verify.
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